Academy School
Winters Mill High School has four "academies" or focuses of interest where students are grouped based on the fields they expect to enter after graduation. Teachers take an interest survey and are also assigned to academies to serve as advisors. There are four Academy Leaders who serve as department chairs for their respective academies. Mr. Greg Knill is the school-wide academy coordinator who oversees advisory lessons and course scheduling. Students are then arranged into advisories within each grade level to facilitate this career focus.
The Academies are:
- Science, Technology, Education, and Mathematics- STEM (Mr. Wesley Winters, leader)
- Health, Human, and Social Sciences- HHSS (Mrs. Lois Tiffany, leader)
- Business and Information Management- BIM (Mrs. Linda Roy, leader)
- Arts, Humanities, and Communications- AHC (Mrs. Sharon Schaeffer, leader)
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